DUNDEE UNITED may sue former striker Mario Bilate after he slaughtered the club’s medical staff in an article in a Dutch magazine.

The furious Tannadice outfit have taken legal advice and are considering trying to claw back some of the settlement they paid out to the Russian-born frontman last November when he was released from his contract after 16 injury-hit months.

But Den Bosch hitman Bilate, who was on £2000 a week at United and only scored two goals in 16 games, claimed in Voetball International that a host of hamstring problems stemmed from misdiagnosis and improper treatment from the club’s physios and medical staff.

He said: “In my first season I had a pain in my hamstring, which was something I’d never experienced before.

“I was wrongly diagnosed. They didn’t spot the problems.

“I would return to action too soon and things would go wrong once again.

“The club didn’t give me an MRI scan. They drew up a recovery plan for me before they knew what my problems were.” United believe Bilate has breached terms of his settlement agreement, which bans the player from speaking about his time in Tayside.